The Craig Wright saga found its way back into the crypto timeline this week, as it tends to do about once a year. This time, however, instead of drifting into yet another circular argument about identity, authorship, and the Bitcoin white paper published in 2008, Ripple’s CTO stepped in with a short but very direct rebuttal. His intervention immediately brought the discussion back to the public record that has followed the self-proclaimed Satoshi for years.
It all started with Wright’s own post arguing that civil courts cannot declare fraud, implying that every past ruling was merely opinion rather than a definitive finding. This claim runs contrary to the numerous legal rulings stating that he is not the author of the Bitcoin white paper.
Ripple’s CTO, David Schwartz, made debunking Wright’s thesis straightforward and easy to understand. He simply referred to the legal definition of the term “fraud.” According to this definition, fraud is not some unreachable criminal threshold but a well-defined tort based on misrepresentation. It involves a false or reckless statement made with the intent that someone rely on it, causing actual harm when they do. This is precisely the standard on which multiple judges evaluated Wright’s conduct.
These judges concluded that Wright’s filings included forged documents, inconsistent sworn statements, and attempts to mislead the court. This legal grounding clearly contradicts Wright’s argument and confirms the legitimacy of the rulings against him.
The conversation shifted immediately after Schwartz’s rebuttal because the crypto market has seen this pattern many times before. Wright surfaces a new promotional angle around BSV, the filings reappear, judges’ wording gets quoted once again, and the narrative resets to the same baseline: none of the “I am Satoshi” claims have survived formal legal proceedings. Every attempt to reopen the debate inevitably runs into the same stack of rulings that have closed it.
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/tech/ripple-cto-ends-debate-over-legal-claims-pushed-by-self-proclaimed-satoshi-craig-wright/